Portable traveling crane.



G. R. GULLINGWORTH.

PATENTED JUNE 26, 1906.

PORTABLE TRAVBLING CRANE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, 1905.

Q )ilmenau without a crane is very great.

GEORGE.- R. oULLiNGwonrH, or MoUNr'vERNoN, New

YORK.

Pom-ABLE rsavseme cleans.

n Specication of Letters Patent.

atented June 26, 1906.

Y, Application led November 15, 1905. Serial No. 287,403.

Taal whom, t may concern,.-

Beit-known that I, GEORGE R. CULLING- l WORTH,` a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Traveling Cranes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Iy invention relates to a portable travelling crane for automobiles and similar apparatusrom which it may be desired to remove the engine or to repair some of the l eavy parts. l

The widespread use of motor-vehicles necessitates their repair in many local shops l and garages which are not fitted with travell lng cranes in the manner of general machineslrops; but on account of the heavy nature of motor-vehicle repairing a traveling crane of some sort is at times almost indispensable.

It is the urpose of my invention to provide a simpld and cheap construction of traveling crane especially adapted tor the assembling or repair of motor-vehicles and which is adaptable for use in garages or rural repair shops where expensive machinery is .not l available. i

A further object of the inventionis to rol vide a'device of the above character in w 'ch the motor-vehicle shall be raised from the i'ioor so as to permit ready access to the parts beneath.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the construction7 combination, location, and arrangement of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, as shown in the accom anying drawings, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l 1s a side elevation of a device embodying the princi les of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a front e evation of the same.

The rincipal difliculty in the repair of automobiles is due to the non-accessibility of the parts The chassis is usually so close to the ground that it is extremely uncomfort-- able to get beneath the car to repair the parts and the difficulty of removin the engine In the device embodying my invention I raise the automobile-chassis ofi' of the floor on channel-irons7 and I employ the same channel-irons for guiding a small and specially-constructed traveling crane which is adapted for all purposes of automobile repair. Y.

Referring to the drawings and to the various reference-signs .appearing thereon, in which like arts are designated by the same reference-siensw wherevemthey occur, I denotes standards, which are conveniently formed of gasipe, with flange-couplings 2 thereon. gasipe, which may be conveniently secured to t e uprights 1 b'y ordinary T-couplings 4. The use of the above-described materials is of course not essential to my invention, but forms a convenient su )porting-frame for the channel-irons, presently to be described.

5 indicates a support which may be of castiron in order toygive suiiicient rigidity against lateral dis ilaccment, and between the support 5 an each of the uprights l I suspend channel-beams 6, which are also conveniently bent downward at their 'forward` ends to form inclined ways or guides 7.

8 indicates a standard upon the base 5, in which is journaled a small windlass 9, of any convenient or preferred construction.

Upon the outside vertical iianges l() of the .channel-beams 6 I arrange and guide carriages which constitute the supports for my portable traveling crane. l1 indicates these carriages, and I refer to form them of a single piece of metai having lugs l2 thereon.

13 indicates flanged Wheels, which are journaled at the ends of the carriages 1l and are of a form to roll upon the anges l() above referred to.

le indicates struts or standards, which are bolted to the lugs 12 and project diagonally upward therefrom, being firmly bolted to each other and having a rigid cross-beam 15 at their upper ends.

16 indicates a trolley which can be moved back and forth upon bar 15, and 17 indicates a hoisting-tackle of any desired sort.

In operation the motor-vehicle chassis to be repaired is arranged at the bottom of the inclined ways or guides 7 and the windlass 9 is then tackled onto the' motor-vehicle, by IOO which it is drawn up the ways 7 and onto the channel-beams 6, which are sufficiently broad to accommodate any usual gage of wheels. The traveling crane is now moved over the engine or any loe-repaired and thetackle 17 operated to raise the part. The chassis may now be removed and the engine lowered i to the Hoor or the traveling crane may be moved along the channel-beams,

3 in icates a cross-brace, also of other part which is to I 65 carrying the part with it, un- I I0 .fil

til a convenient place is found to operate upon the part. if desired, the traveling crane may be entirely lowered down the Ways or guides 7 onto the floor, the Windlass 9 being effective to prevent the crane 'from upsettingI in this action. At all times the motor-vehicle is accessible from beneath 'lor any necessary rep airs, so that by my device motor-vehicle is made accessible at all points.

Yihle 'l have described. the invention with narticular reference to the use of channelirons as the main supporting Ways or members, it is evident 'that sunporting beams or Ways vof otherl forms can c used. l1 or ei;- ample, supporting-guides having i'lat upper surfaces could be used, the guiding-Wheels i3 in this case -having their flanges so positioned as to be guided by the outside edges of such guides or Ways. l do not desire, therefore, to be limited or restricted to the use of channel-beams for this purpose.

What l claim l. A portable crane comprising a pair oi channel-beams adapted to receive the Wheels of an automobile, carriages having ilanged rollers guided by the outside ilanges of seid beams, and a crane supported from said earriages.

2. A portable crane comprising a pair of guiding-beams, inclined Ways or guides thereior, a windlas's, and a traveling crane moving on said guiding-beams and arranged to nieve over an automobile placed on said beams.

3. A portable crane comprising a base, a. pair of uprights, a pair oi' guiding-beams supported between said `oase and said uprights, inclined Ways for said beams, and a traveling crane arranged to move on said beams, said crane being capable of movement past a vehicle resting upon said beams.

4l. The combination of two channel-beams, aportion of which are bent to form an inclined Way, a crane thereon, suitable supports For the channel-beams, and a Windlass,

said crane being capable of movement past a l clined struts bolted to said ugs, a cam con-` necting said struts, and a hoisting-tackle depending from said beam.

7. ln a portable crane, a base, a pairof up- Y rights formed of gas-pipe, channel-beams connectmfr for said clianne bea1ns, a pair of carriages having flanged rollers moving on the ilanves oi said beams, inclined struts supportedtb said carriages, a trolley-beam connecting said struts, and .a hoisting-tackle depending from seid trolley-beam.

in -witness whereof I subscribe my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

@EGBGB R. CULLING-WURTH. Viitnesses J. T. "WILLIAMS,

Cnns. T. LUTHER.

said arts, inclined Ways or guides 

